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...sides, then, recognize the need to maintain a balance. And despite the disappointment of many democracy-minded students over Khatami?s condemnation, he and the students continue to share the same goals. "Iran?s students are not trying to overthrow Khatami?s government," says Dowell. "They?re trying to spur on its reform program and defend it from conservative attack...
What drives this blue-collar philanthropist? One spur is his own thwarted desire for higher education. Growing up the fifth of seven children in Shreveport, he had to drop out of school after seventh grade to help support his family. "I always wanted to better myself," says Dawson, "but I came up in the Depression. I had to work...
...lifestyles. Until recently, most people splurged on one major vacation. Now many Americans and Europeans are taking several short and often impromptu breaks throughout the year. Travelocity, the world's largest online travel-booking site, advertises last-minute deals, while Microsoft's Expedia travel website offers comprehensive guides for spur-of-the-moment business travelers. One agency response is to concentrate on highly focused service-oriented travel. Another is to emphasize specialized tourism, such as golf tours and culinary holidays...
Even so, it is hard to pinpoint just how Yeltsin was involved in the NATO-trumping encampment at Pristina. Close aides insist Yeltsin knew about--even ordered--the move. In fact, Russian military sources say, the raid was a spur-of-the-moment undertaking, devised by generals furious with NATO's stonewalling. The decision, say Russian sources, was taken no earlier than June 10, two days before the troops moved in. At that point, U.S.-Russia talks on peacekeeping in Kosovo were going badly. Military representatives suspected that their main U.S. interlocutor, Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott, was playing...
Bush's bid for the Undergraduate Council presidency his junior year also increased his name recognition on campus. Bush, who served on the Undergraduate Council for one year, says he decided to jump into the election on the spur of the moment because he was "just sick of the way things were being...